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Quotes About Work

Love is a tremendous gift… a gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.
~ Shana Abé
Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you.
~ Shana Abé
Being in love makes all that work easier, but it does not make it go away. There will be necessary sacrifices. There will be pain.
~ Shana Abé
Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention. It will push you and bend you and test you, and if you're not prepared for any of that, it will shatter you. I imagine the colonel could tell you something about what that's like.
~ Shana Abé
Because love is a tremendous gift, Maddy. A gift and a burden. Marriage especially is more than just hope and luck and a handshake. Marriage is work, enormous work, because it's a living entity that needs everlasting attention.
~ Shana Abé
You prefer thieving to honest work?" "Honest work? How much do you pay your maids annually? Six pounds? Eight? I can make that in a month—in a night, if all goes well. I could make more than that as a beggar. Why do you think so many take to the streets, begging? Because honest work is hardly honest when the only one profiting is the rich man who owns the workplace." She was right. Dane knew it, and he hated to accept
~ Shana Galen
I cannot believe it, Sean repeated. It's hypocritical. After the shit she gives me for taking risks? And off she goes, running back to Endicott Falls, today? Like, what the fuck ? To be fair, Bruno pointed out. You ran off to shoot people and blow shit up. She went home to go back to work at her bookstore.
~ Shannon McKenna
We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart
~ Sharon Salzberg
When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.
~ Sharon Salzberg
determined to go on and do her job and we
~ Sheila Weller
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration
~ Shelby Foote
He made me realize that hard work--that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task--is joyous
~ Sherman Alexie
You can't teach at our school if you don't live in the compound. It was like some kind of prison-work farm for our liberal, white, vegetarian do-gooders and conservative, white missionary saviors.
~ Sherman Alexie
Did you do that? (Simone) Sometimes my powers work. Sometimes they don't. Looks like this time they did. Yea, us. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kyra is working on a new program and I'm going to test it. (Chris) That's one way of putting it. (Urian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Interested in some 'undercover' work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm currently between assignments and was looking for a change. I heard there was work in Nashville and it seemed like a good place to start over. So here I am stuck in the freezing cold with a…serial killer. Has the making for a great horror movie, huh? (Leta)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.
~ Cristina Saralegui
If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.
~ Dalai Lama
I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.
~ Dave Matthews
Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.
~ David Krumholtz
I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
~ Demi Moore